دانلود کتاب The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam

Lucien Bodard is one of the best-known French foreign correspondents and he is an expert on Indochina; he knows the Far East as few Europeans can know it, for not only has he spent a great deal of his working life there, but he was born in Chungking. Indeed, one of his earliest recollections is intimately connected with Asian politics---lopped-off heads in a basket, exposed to discourage the opposition. And as it happens his wife, who is a journalist too, also has an Eastern background, for she was brought up in Saigon. Lucien Bodard, therefore, possesses a vast store of knowledge, the immensely detailed ramifying knowledge that comes from having been there for years and years with open ears and eyes and a sharply intelligent, trained inquiring mind---knowledge of a very different kind from that which is amassed in a few weeks by newspapermen who fly into Saigon with a load of hurried reading and preconceived ideas." (from introduction)